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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
Technical Session|Sponsored by 14. OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 7
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Constructability and Cost Considerations of Precast and Cast-in-Place Concrete for Nuclear SR applications
1:00–1:20PM MST
Tehemton J. Bhagwagar (Burns & McDonnell), Pat Moore
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Developing a Data-Driven Model and Predicting Bifurcations of a BWR Core using SINDy
1:20–1:40PM MST
John M. Matulis (Purdue University), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue University)
Design of Gray Rod for Smoothing Power Fluctuations
1:40–2:00PM MST
Trey Hornsby (Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab), Max Cohen Hoffing, William S. Charlton (University of Texas-Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
RCS Outlet-based Reactivity Control with Inlet-Temperature Feedback for Boron-Free SMR Load Following
2:00–2:20PM MST
Seongho Park (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Company), Changhee Lee (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Company), Jung-gyw Lee (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Company)
The Advanced Reactor Fabrication Bottleneck: How Classification Constrains a Limited Nuclear Supply Chain
2:20–2:40PM MST
Kevin Ness (Natura Resources), Boyce Travis (Natura Resources)